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Snake — yes, a snake — causes power outage in parts of North Carolina twice in one week
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3rd snake-induced power outage hits North Carolina
Before the Wayne County outage-by-snake Sunday night, snakes crawled into electrical areas and shorted out equipment, in two earlier major central North Carolina power outages in a week.
Snake triggers large Wayne County power outage; 3rd such central NC case in a week
The outage appears centered just north of Goldsboro just south of Interstate 42 between I-795 and U.S. 117. A Google satellite map shows a large electrical substation in that exact location.